Ben Van Meter Movies

Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Grace Jones

The astrological signs of 12 young women.

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A chicken farmer takes LSD.

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Cast: Earl Pillow

Colored lights and lovely ladies. Snatches of kinetic beauty.

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Cast: Peter Wise

Hilariously terrifying satire of an interrogation session by the thought police.

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Rathyahatra Festival San Francisco 1970.

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Magic is alive and living in Bolinas. A folkfilm, a personal poem about my family and my town. Includes "Bear-Hunt," Bolinas 4th of July," "Rummage,"...

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A joyous, chaotic and colorful romp through nature; A psychedelic dance troupe rehearses in a studio.

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Cast: Jerry Jump

Make Love, Not War, or Brown Rice, uses three projectors, and takes advantage of all the possibilities. Similar images with different...

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Cast: Salvatore Lombardo

Experimental documentary about the San Francisco scene.

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First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

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First experimentation with in-camera multiple exposure as a technique of self-expression.

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Filmed and sound recorded at the Human Be-In during the summer of love, 1967.

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One of the most powerful, thought-provoking collage films produced during the New American Cinema Movement. Almost schizophrenic in its kaleidoscopic...

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The Poon Tang Trilogy (1964, B/W, sound) is a brief film composed of three 3-minute segments: in the first tableau, footage of the Hindenburg...

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Cast: Leslie Libby Stewart

Van Meter had three camera rolls of 7242 Ektachrome EFB, which he fully ran through his camera each day of the 3-day Trips Festival. The end result...

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Bay Area filmmakers and Canyon Cinema co-founders Ben Van Meter and Bruce Conner were invited to L.A. to talk about Underground Film on the Art...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ben Van Meter

A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar.

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Cast: Nico

A film exposing the staged commodification and banality of the American "beauty contest" with color overlays of fireworks in reverse-motion. ...

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Created in 1968 by Robert Comings and Ben Van Meter in Bolinas, CA. Original sound & music performed on homemade acoustic instruments. Including a...

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Cast: Bob Comings

Nymphs in the woods... exotic... sensual. Featuring two lovely pregnant young ladies doing centuries old dances in green woods with see through veils.

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Steve Miller Blues Band sequence by prominent San Francisco filmmaker Ben Van Meter.

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The shadowing forth of Our Lord Lucifer, as the Power of Darkness gather at a midnight mass. The dance of the Magus widdershins around the Swirling...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kenneth Anger

Alexandra Jackonetti recounts the building of a children's playground of macrame in Bolinas, Calif., including her conception of the project and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alexandra Jackonetti

This film follows a young man's adventures from his arrival in the big city, till he passes out in an apartment having been kidnapped and abandoned...

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Nine films grouped together that form the basis of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kenneth Anger